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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:48 PM Sep 2012

Ex-Ambassador To Israel: U.S. Will Go To War With Iran In 2013

(CBS News) Former Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, offered a dire prediction of a U.S. confrontation with Iran, saying it could escalate into war as early as next year.

"I'm afraid that 2013 is going to be a year in which we're going to have a military confrontation with Iran," he said Sunday on "Face the Nation."

Indyk joined a roundtable of foreign policy experts to discuss the latest protests in the Middle East and Israel's public statements pressuring the United States over Iran.

The former ambassador said the time has not come, yet, that the U.S. needs to take military action. "Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon," he said. [W]hile there's still time, there's not a lot of time."

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Ex-Ambassador To Israel: U.S. Will Go To War With Iran In 2013 (Original Post) Purveyor Sep 2012 OP

Imminent Invasion Of Iran Predicted, vol. MMMMMDCCCXXI. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #1

What a maroon! GulleyJimson Sep 2012 #2

Is Iran going to attack us in 2013? malokvale77 Sep 2012 #3

Can't fault Israeli leadership for lacking of trying to drag the US into another lumpy Sep 2012 #4

Republican appointee? aquart Sep 2012 #5

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)

1. Imminent Invasion Of Iran Predicted, vol. MMMMMDCCCXXI. (nt)

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 03:08 PM

Sep 2012

GulleyJimson

(107 posts)

2. What a maroon!

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 03:08 PM

Sep 2012

Only if Dick Cheney is vice-president.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)

3. Is Iran going to attack us in 2013?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 04:39 PM

Sep 2012

Or is this going to be one of those "preemptive strikes" like Iraq.

Do we take our marching orders from Israel now?

lumpy

(13,704 posts)

4. Can't fault Israeli leadership for lacking of trying to drag the US into another

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 05:17 PM

Sep 2012

senseless war. Obama must stand firm and use wisdom in pursuing peacefull solutions to Mideast problems. Well past time that our leadership lets other nations settle their differences. We might be justified in picking up the pieces of other nation's war follies, but to be a participant in any war that is a matter of playground bullying/political power postering is simply not right.

aquart

(69,014 posts)

5. Republican appointee?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 05:43 PM

Sep 2012

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